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Old Feb 12, 2005, 6:55 am
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Originally Posted by Bytepusher
One other suggestion.

If you can reasonably claim a legitimate need for a more flexible ticket (because for example your work could run extra time) then you should be able to ask the travel agent for a changeable ticket, that precludes Tango since Tango tickets are not changeable...
Actually Tango fares are changeable for a fee. The problem is that once the fees are paid you are likely better off to buy the next higher fare anyway. A real stingy CFO with nothing better to do might ask you to give them odds on how often you'll change so he can compute a risk model

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